Iconically tied to real-world fire-breathers—think Vesuvius and Pompeii, Hawaii’s Kīlauea, the Pacific Ring of Fire, and those Icelandic blasts that turned flight plans into modern art—the volcano emoji pops up all over the internet. You’ll find it tagging meltdown posts, breakup anthems, K‑pop comeback chaos, sports-rage threads, and any “this meeting is about to blow” moment. For extra theatrics, people stack it with 🔥💥😤🥵, or drop it beside tacos and chilis when dinner reaches magma-level heat.
On Apple/iOS, the character appears as a stout, dark-charcoal cone viewed at a slight three-quarter angle—pure movie-poster drama. A neon-orange lava fountain spills over the crater and streaks down the slope like glowing syrup, with a soft gray puff of smoke hovering above. The punchy, high-contrast shading basically says “do not touch,” and the red-orange glow plus ashy plume stays unmistakable even at tiny sizes.
As shorthand, it’s the emoji for eruption-level emotion—lava, ash, and outsized feelings bundled together. It covers every kind of blowup: timeline hot takes bursting their seams, spicy dishes that deserve a warning label, or group chats that go from simmer to full detonation. Folks use it to flag rage-quits and chaotic headlines, and to lampoon the internet’s habit of turning minor hassles into cinematic catastrophes (“they were out of oat milk 🌋”). It also works playfully or flirty—“you’re lava hot”—and with a wink of irony when the moment is more spark than eruption.
Definition
Many mountains in the Pacific Ring of Fire are dormant (sleeping) volcanos. This emoji is an active volcano that is bursting (erupting) with hot lava. Lava is hot molten rock that comes from the Earth's core (magma). Hawaii was formed by a volcano at the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1095 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:volcano:
Keywords
Volcano, Lava, Magma, Hot, Explode
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Weather, Landscape, and Sky Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Weather and Landscape Symbols
Names & Annotations
VOLCANO
Symbol Information
U+1F30B proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-03A
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[火山]
KDDI
#769 火山 U+EB53 SJIS-F457 JIS-7B38
Softbank
[火山]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🌋
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🌋
Decimal HTML Entity
🌋
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🌋
Hex Code Point(s)
1f30b
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F30B
Decimal Code Point(s)
127755
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x8B
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C 8B
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 213
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF0B
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf0b
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57099
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F30B
UTF-32 Hex
01F30B
UTF-32 Dec
127755
Python Src
u"\U0001F30B"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\x8b"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF0B"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
